While making people feel bad for feeling bad doesn’t help, there is something to be said for practising gratitude and reflecting on comparative difficulties.
Anxiety Treatment Articles by Mark Tyrrell
Anxiety is the core issue for so many of our clients. Whether they are suffering from depression, OCD, trauma, phobias or addictions, anxiety is in there somewhere. So it’s essential that, as therapy practitioners, we fully understand how anxiety works and what we can do about it. Here I’ve written about the clients I’ve treated for anxiety and what they’ve taught me about what works best.
Why Mindfulness Is So Important For Busy Practitioners (Whether You Meditate Or Not!)
How you can gain detachment (and therefore calm) when you really need it – even when you are right in the middle of a situation.
3 Simple Ways To Reframe Your Client’s Negative Bias
Depression gets us using a strictly negative bias. Under its baleful influence, anything ‘good’ that happens is interpreted as simply the ‘exception that proves the negative rule’. Here’s how to reframe that toxic outlook.